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  <h1>History of Adoption in Australia</h1>
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<h2>Explanatory Statement</h2>
<p>We are a group of researchers based at Monash University and the Australian Catholic University, led by Marian Quartly of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at Monash University, and Professor Shurlee Swain of the School of Arts and Sciences (Vic) at Australian Catholic University. We have received government funding for this project but we are not a government department, and we are not aligned with any adoption organisations. </p>
<p>This project aims to give a voice to the many women and men whose lives have been touched by adoption. We have established a website where those stories can be brought to national attention, and we will incorporate the many truths told in these stories into a national history of adoption. Our website aims to reflect the stories of everyone affected by adoption, whatever their experience and whatever their point of view. These people may include adoptees, adoptive parents, parents who have been separated from their children by adoption, other family members such as siblings and grandparents, and professionals whose work has involved adoption: nurses, midwives, doctors, social workers and clerics.</p>
<p>We hope individual participants will benefit from the opportunity to tell their stories nationally, and to comment on the stories of other participants. We believe that the nation will benefit collectively from a better understanding of the impact of previous adoption practices both on individual lives and on the shaping of national history. </p>
<p>When you contribute a story to the project, your story will be placed on our website. You may do this yourself or an oral historian may do this on your behalf. Your story can be in either oral or written form.  The recording of a story by an interviewer will take about two hours. Participation in this research is entirely voluntary. You will have ten days to check your story before anyone else can read or hear it.</p>
<p>You can choose to be publicly identified as the author of your story, or to remain anonymous. All other material will be presented to scholars and to the general public anonymously. You are asked not to name other people in your story, and all stories will be revised to meet privacy legislation requirements before publication on the website. </p>
<p>Storage of the data collected will follow Monash University regulations. Your story will be available on the project website for the life of the project and will be publicly available after that in a permanent archive. This archive will be available to everyone with internet access. A report of the study will be submitted for publication, but individual participants will not be identifiable in this report.</p>
<p>The information that we collect about you is used for the purposes of research. No personal information will be disclosed to third parties unless you have chosen to share that information in your story. You have a right to access personal information that Monash University holds about you, subject to any exceptions in relevant legislation. If you wish to seek access to your personal information or to inquire about the handling of your personal information, please contact the University Privacy Officer at: <a href="privacyofficer@adm.monash.edu.au">privacyofficer@adm.monash.edu.au</a>. Further information about Monash University’s privacy policy is available at: <a href="http://www.privacy.monash.edu.au/procedure/index.html">http://www.privacy.monash.edu.au/procedure/index.html</a>. </p>
<p>Papers arising from this research, and details of the published history of adoption, will be available on the website as they come to hand. If you would like to be personally informed about publication details, please contact Marian Quartly on <a href="mailto:marian.quartly@monash.edu">marian.quartly@monash.edu</a>.</p>
<p>Thank  you.<br>
  <img src="static/quartly-signature.gif" alt=" " width="134" height="58" border="0"><br>
Marian Quartly</p>
<h3>Contact the researchers</h3>
<p>If you would like to contact the<strong> researchers </strong>about any aspect of this study, please contact the Chief    Investigator:<strong></strong></p>
<p>Emeritus    Professor Marian Quartly,<br>
School    of Historical Studies,<br>
Arts    Faculty,<br>
Clayton    Campus,<br>
Monash University,<br>
Victoria 3800</p>
<p>Telephone:    &nbsp;+61 3 9905 3257, <br>
  Email: 
  <a href="mailto:marian.quartly@arts.monash.edu.au">marian.quartly@arts.monash.edu.au </a></p>
<p>Professor    Shurlee Swain,<br>
  School    of Arts and Sciences,<br>
  Australian Catholic University,<br>
  115 Victoria Parade, <br>
  Fitzroy    3065</p>
<p>Telephone:    +61 3 9953 3239 <br>
  Email: 
  <a href="mailto:shurlee.swain@acu.edu.au">shurlee.swain@acu.edu.au</a></p>
<h3>Complaints</h3>
<p>If you have a<strong> complaint </strong>concerning    the manner in which this research (Project number: CF09/0517:&nbsp; 2009000189) is being conducted, please contact:</p>
<p>Executive Officer, Human Research Ethics <br>
Monash University Human Research Ethics Committee (MUHREC)<br>
Building 3e,  Room 111<br>
Research Office<br>
Monash University VIC 3800</p>
<p>Telephone: +61 3 9905 2052<br> 
  Fax: +61 3 9905 3831 <br>
  Email: 
  <a href="mailto:muhrec@monash.edu.au">muhrec@monash.edu.au</a></p>
<p>Administrative  Officer (Ethics) <br>
  Research  Services <br>
  Australian  Catholic University Limited <br>
  St  Patrick's Campus <br>
  (Locked  Bag 4115) Fitzroy, Victoria 3065 <br>
  250 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne </p>
<p> Telephone: 61  3 9953 3158 <br>
  Fax: 61  3 9953 3315<br>
  Email: 
  <u><a href="mailto:res.ethics@acu.edu.au">res.ethics@acu.edu.au</a></u></p>
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